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CHARTING THE
HEAVENS
Robert D. Morritt
 This book looks at ancient
astronomy also astrology in Hellenistic Egypt and Babylonian influence of
astrology in Greece and its later appearance in Medieval Islam.
Archaic
astronomical inventions such as an ancient Greek Armillary sphere, Babylon
water clocks, the Compass .The study of equinoxes and the intriguing ancient
corroded Antikythera mechanism discovered underwater. An ancient Greek
Armillary sphere and a Medieval analog computer.
The discovery of
the Dendera Zodiac. Inventions such as the Astrarium, the Astrolabe,
Armillary Spheres, the Orrery. The Classical age features an overview of the
inventions of Archimedes, the works of Erastosthenes of Cyrene, Hecataeus of
Miletus, Heron of Alexandria and Philo of Byzantium and Hipparchus of Nicaea
amongst others (An intriguing overview of Classical Age scientists.
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